pink poodle
気が狂っている男
Fuck I hate star nuts!!! I had a spare 30 minutes between sitting around being a useless lazy shit and rushing off to dinner. Hmmmm why not get the forks onto your covid build? You know...the one you have done about 45 minutes of work on over the whole lockdown you useless douche bag! Well no need for the name calling, but that does sound like a good idea and down to the garage I go.
Step 1 = cut steerer. I run a quick dry assemble, check the length, check+check+check+check+check+check+check (hey you only get one shot at this!), Cut, file, wash off any fragments. Holy shit that went very well and the cut is perfect.
Step 2 = star nut. Hammer, screw driver (the best punch in the world!), Longer screw driver, and bang bang bang bang. This is the best star nut install I have ever done. It is in and straight and fuck that was easy.
Step 3 = wet assemble. Out comes the grease (and Loctite!) and I am pretty generous with it. Slide it all together and in goes the bolt to connect with the star nut...but fuck me in the face!!! I have punched the star nut in about 5mm too far!
And then it begins. I decide to spend the next too many minutes punching the star nut out through the bottom of the steerer. What a fucking mission that was! It turned side ways. It rolled over. It jammed. I ran out of long enough things to punch it with. I eventually levered it from the bottom. Then of course I realise I could have just drilled it out in a jiffy. Fuck you star nut!!!!
Step 1 = cut steerer. I run a quick dry assemble, check the length, check+check+check+check+check+check+check (hey you only get one shot at this!), Cut, file, wash off any fragments. Holy shit that went very well and the cut is perfect.
Step 2 = star nut. Hammer, screw driver (the best punch in the world!), Longer screw driver, and bang bang bang bang. This is the best star nut install I have ever done. It is in and straight and fuck that was easy.
Step 3 = wet assemble. Out comes the grease (and Loctite!) and I am pretty generous with it. Slide it all together and in goes the bolt to connect with the star nut...but fuck me in the face!!! I have punched the star nut in about 5mm too far!
And then it begins. I decide to spend the next too many minutes punching the star nut out through the bottom of the steerer. What a fucking mission that was! It turned side ways. It rolled over. It jammed. I ran out of long enough things to punch it with. I eventually levered it from the bottom. Then of course I realise I could have just drilled it out in a jiffy. Fuck you star nut!!!!